The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-12-12
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"ltuouI Culrp OF applause from the
audience.
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speciala from Halifax state that, DESPITE
official deniala, it is true that threo men
were discovered trying to break through
the roof OF the gun cotton magazine on st.
George Island. An investigation is to be
made.
After being out thirty-aeven hours, the
Jury in the case Of VAndeven, at Knox
Vile, Ia, charged with poisoning his wife
at Pella, reported last night that 1t could
not agree. 1t stood nine for conviction
and three for acquittal.
The body Of Andrew Edwards, colored,
who lived near Minder, La, was found
Saturday in the woods hanging by the
neck from the limb OF tree Edwards had
boon missing for several days. Nothing
ia known as to the preparation OF the
deed.
Tho jury in the casa Of Luther ShpfIer,
who has beon on Trial at Lock Haven all
week Tor tho murder of Isaac Colby and
bis wife Mora, has returned verdict OF
murder in the tirs. degres. Three other
msn await trial on similar charge.
John McCaGfey, President OF the Peli.
can Insurance Company, at New Orleane
heB been discovered to be defsulter in
the amount Of $40, 900 and has Left the city.
AioCaf!ey haa bean leading grain NOR.
chant for many years and has slgsys
stood high as a business man.
Mr.. W. A. Dill, Republican, offered in
the Virginia House, Saturday, q resolution
opposing the doctrine eet out in President
Olevelsnd'o message. The resolution was
referred to committee, the House relus.
ing by strict party vote to suspend the
rules in order to vote on it.
4 party OF men near Bes.e City, Kss.
chased party OF horse thieves into the
Panhandle, Thursday. and killed three OF
them. A relative Of Bob Fsrnsworth, tho
desperate, was among the pursuing party,
and was injured. Others were ounded
slightly. This breaks up the gang.
Local Assembly S39S, OF PHILADELPHIA,
composed Of ingram carpet weayers and
under tho Jurisdiction OF tho expelled
District 126. TOOK preliminary steps Satur.
day night to connect themselves with the
movement inarguratsd in this city by the
provisional committee aud aecedere from
the Knights OF Labor.
G. P. Huntington, OF the Central Pacific,
has sent to the Pacific Railway Commis.
eion statement OF the position of that
company. The document was prepared
by Roscoe Conk king and W. E. Shipnan,
and reiterated the ismilisr srguu, euts for
cancellation oil the company's debt to the
government. ga' ,fl.7 :
William G. Pennybacker's extensive
barrel factory at Twenty.,hird street and
Washington avenue, Philadelphis, waa
total ly destroyed by Ere Saturday morning,
together with valuable machinery, large
stock Of lumber, finished barrels and
staVes: This loss will probably exceed
100000. 49,,
Principal Keunebrow, OF the Atlanta
public schools. was attacked BY the bow
scholare While Furnishing one Of their
number. He wng driven out Of the build.
ing and chased some distance throu Oh the
streets and stoned. The affair Causes
some excitement. kennebrow is unpop-
ular because Of his frequent severe punish.
ment Of achols,p. ~, NJ -
Friday night two masked mon went to
the house ol Mrs. Kingston Brown and
her son, q lad about eighteen years of age.
near East Bernard, Texas, dragged them
out CT bed, toox them 10 the woods and
murdered them. The boy was shot three
timeB and his skull was crushed. Mrs.
Brown wsa shot once and had bar
throat cut. Several parties are undor
arrest. g.'-
Morris ". Hughes, q prominent hard.
ware merchant and we'll known Hepubli.
Gan politician OF Scranton, took largo
dose OF laudauum Thursday night and
told his wife to bring him their little
! adopted daughter that he might kiss her
goodbye, as he had taken !suisnum.
His wife thought he was joking, but an
hour later he Was unconscious. Busipess
advsrsity was tho cause Of the act.
Hon. Benjam Rush Plumley, ono Of
the early Abolitionists OF the North, died
at his homo in Galveston yesterday aged
| II. In his younger days tho deceasod was
an associate oil William Lloyd Garrison,
Wendell Phillips and Lucretia Mott, and
took prominent part in tho fret agitation
againet slavery. He vaa native of phila:
delphla, and descended from one OF tho
old Quaker families. IA r.,a}
Concerning the di5patsh lrom Erie that
a man named s. G. Sellers, OF Mitchell,
Canada, had discovered a boy whom he
felt certain was the long lost Charlie Ross,
Christian K. Roas, the father OF tho miss.
ing boy, said yesterday that ne had re-
ceived no letter on tho subject from Mr..
Sellers or any one else from Eric. II
don't attach any importance te :hs story"
he added ;"I don't think there Is any.
thing in it," y s,5
A number OF young women oil Ham.
mond Ind, claimed to have been elander-
ed by Editor Towle, Of the Echo. The
girls replied in kind, publishing an article
in another paper scoring the editor. Sat.
urday seven Of the girls met Towlo in the
street, and, throwing red pepper in hia
face, three Of them attacked him with COW.
hides, The editor begged for mercy, and
then threatened to shoot, but tha girls
only piled the whip the faster, Towle